#ace spellbound

[mousart]

Sketchbook 2021 So a friend tried to get a Nobilis game together but we couldn't make it happen. I adapted my League of Heroes character, The Ace of Spades, into The Aspect of Magicians for the game because I had cool ideas of how to adapt his card thing and his family

[mousart]

So yeah, it’s the Fourth of July. You know, fireworks season. So I figured it was a perfect time to draw and re-introduce one of my supervillains from my Heroes Universe. I’ve posted art of him before right here. I have trouble with him sometimes because I designed him a certain way so he looks much older than he’s supposed to be

So, meet Skylight.  I haven’t come up with his civilian name yet but he has one.

He used to be the head of the Skylight Fireworks franchise, an old family business that he loved. However, the company was going under and bigger companies were crowding him out. Eventually the board voted him out and the company got absorbed into some other fireworks megacorp.

He lost everything, he was absolutely furious, it was gone, all gone!

Well one thing his family always knew and taught was how to make the product yourself. He saw no other way, blinded by rage and loss, he made himself a protective suit, made his own custom fireworks, took up the name of his deceased company, and tried to get revenge on the board that kicked him out and subsequently other fireworks companies.

Eventually his anger winded down, however at that point he realized he was out of options. He had made himself into a criminal and had attempted assault, sabotage, and possibly murder. He was a good guy who had a long series of bad days and poor decisions and now he was stuck.

With no other options he’s taken to being a career criminal, taking on jobs he can get hired for such as a distraction for other villains, henching, robberies, sabotage, and insurance fraud. He’s less keen on harming people, it was never something he enjoyed, and he still likes putting smiles on kids faces when he gets the chance.

[mousart]

Because it was pride month i decided to do portraits of characters from my Heroes Universe who were in fact LGBTQIA. So from the team that started it all, it’s the League of Heroes.

I did something different because I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of time and digital art makes me an obsessive perfectionist. I haven’t busted out the old colored pencil collection in nearly 5 years but when push comes to shove...

So some brief information about each of them under the cut

 First up we have the nominal leader, the asexual Dr. David Gem aka Fistman. 

Genius mad scientist, brilliant physicist and engineer, lover of comics and superheroes, struggles with PTSD from the same event that gave him powers that he tries to overcome with unending child-like love for the mysteries of the universe.

Next up, two of the teens, the demisexual Amelia Wilder aka The Lioness and the bisexual Sally Winging aka Crimson Lighting. 

Amelia is a head strong and intense gal with a great respect and awareness of the world around her, partly due to the instincts she acquires with every animal DNA she incorporates into her being. Her preferred form is the lion, obviously. Amelia is lit up by power + someone worthy of her respect and the scheming Sally has that in spades.

Sally is an energetic artist and a well known prankster with a sharp tongue, sharp wit, and little patience for those with POVs she finds detestable. She is extremely passionate about seeing justice be done in the world, making her more inclined to use her powers to be a hero unlike her two triplet sisters.

The other two teens there are the pansexual Maoxin-jin “Mark-jin” Cho aka Element Boy and the gay Gary McGee aka Steel Boy.

Mark-jin is a cool and chill guy, bit of a hippie that loves nature, tai chi, yoga, and his acoustic guitar. Wears goggles and chinese shirts for no reason other than he thinks they make him look cool. Under that is someone who is very good at board games and thinks himself to be a chessmaster not just of game boards and battlefields, but of friends as well. He means well, which is part of his problem, and that occasionally causes conflict with his boyfriend, Gary.

Gary is a sweet boy, a shy, has a bit of a stutter, has had past experiences of being bullied that added to his timidness. Mark-jin was his protector, then best friend, then boyfriend. Gary loves gardening, watching ballet, and wearing the various knit sweaters his grandmother makes him, he doesn’t want to go out there and fighting bad guys. But the symbiotic organic steel that bonded to him makes him nigh vulnerable and Mark-jin reminds him how valuable his ability and perspectives are to the team.

Next we have the youngest of the “Adult division” of the LoH at 19 when the story begins, the gay Ace Spellbound aka the Ace of Spades

A chill guy, a little lazy, bit of a showman, is a theatre student that adores sleight of hand and stage magic. Though with his power he doesn’t really need to learn stage magic, but he finds it a very useful skill. He’s a bit of the Meta Guy, his theatre and english interests making him exceptionally aware of media tropes almost to a fault, sometimes he thinks he can make some media conventions are at play in the real world.

Finally is another teen, the asexual Timothy “Tim” Simonson (If that is his real name) the Junior Spyborg.

A lifelong spy, shy and insecure about himself as a person but very good at what he does. He’s kind of shy so he’s quite a lot and shut up in his own little world and with the way he covers his face makes people think he’s this cold logical calm collected spy. He doesn’t dissuade anyone of that and on occasion even plays up that he’s probably cool. The incident that got his parents killed also injured him extensively injured him so the organization he’s a part of used the prototype spyborg  program to save him.

His dangly bits and hormones were not radically altered in any way by his reconstruction, he knew he was asexual some time before the whole thing happened and nothing changed.

So that’s the LoH pride portraits. Tune in next time for the Future Heroes and Heroes United ones.

[notincorrectleagueofheroes]

The Ace of Spades(Ace): And that’s why the “Reality is Unrealistic” trope is a thing! We´re in a story and none of this is real! We follow story logic!

Miki: I don’t know how *********** you got in my ******* garage but If you don’t get the ******* hell out I’m going to ********** weld your **************** mouth together with a ********** and ************** WITH MY ************ to make up for THE ******** HOUR OF MY ********** LIFE YOU ******** WASTED YOU *********************************!!!

[notincorrectleagueofheroes]

Shadow: Going on a date with a fascist this morning.

Fistman(David): Wait? When, where, what?!

The Ace of Spades(Ace): Meeting room.

Fistman: Didn’t Psy-Kick call for a meeting this morning?

Shadow: We know what we said.

[notincorrectleagueofheroes]

The Ace of Spade(Ace): Shadow, hey, how’s hangin’? What’re doing all the way out here?

Shadow: Hey Ace, is your sister around?

Ace: Uh...

Shadow: That sounds pretty weird coming from me but-

Ace: Choose your words wisely

Shadow: I need some legal advice

Ace: oh sure no proble- Aren’t you a cop? Don’t you guys have lawyers?!

Shadow: Yeah? And? Who do you think I can trust? A bunch of profiteering overstuffed suits in the pocket of the Boston Police Department...

Ace: ...Or a law obsessed 12 year old with nothing but time, I see your point, get in here.

[mousart]

I did one of those Art v Artist posts I’ve been seeing around. Surely I am keeping up with the times.

Sorry I don’t have tee same skill as the other to be able to digitally create perfect boxes, not everybody grew up learning photoshop.

[mousathe14]

Once upon a time people from another universe where magic was commonplace travelled to our world. Though many returned home some stayed and some bred with the locals. Thousands of generations later people with limited magical abilities manifested. These groups with a common power became "Magi-Clans". These days most Magi-Clans are large families with old money and a lot of influence, and actual magical power that they keep to themselves. 

 Ace Spellbound, family black sheep, believed doing the right thing and doing what made him happy was more important that maintaining the traditions of a self-centered modestly wealthy family of magicians. Ace used his power to become a hero, donning the mantle The Ace of Spades. Ace loves theatre, stage magic, men, and media tropes, which is sort of in opposition to his stodgy conservative wealthy family of doctors, lawyers, and CEOs. Ace and his sister Hannah become two of the 20 founding members of the first superhero team, The League of Heroes

 Hannah Spellbound, lawyer wannabe and Ace's younger and more studious sister by 7 years, she took to spending more time with Ace whom she is close to while still studying under the ideals of her parents. She lives with Ace from time to time under the guise of spying on him for their family. Hannah, wanting to learn more from her brother, took on the mantle of Hearts. Her perspective can be described in this quote from her: "I've always been taught that the law is always right, that vigilante justice is wrong. But my brother taught me it's worse to do nothing when you could have done something."

 Dickson "Dix" Spellbound  is Ace and Hannah's uncle, a club owner and former Marine with a big heart. When Dix's brother kicked Ace out, Dix took Ace in, never having been on board with the family history of shadiness. He doesn't become a superhero immediately, only after coming out a few times to help his niece and nephew, and eventually he joins the UN-run superhero initiative, Heroes U.N.I.T.E.D. The more straightforward Dix took on the mantle 10 Club. 

 Finally there's Jackson Spellbound, the kind, handsome, perfect, and dashing twin cousin to Ace (born on the same day, not actual twins) who is naturally better at everything Ace is good at. After Ace defected from the family, Jack was to be groomed as future head of the family. Jack, while complicit in his family's ways, also harbors no ill will towards his family at all and naively believes He and Ace can get along as family. Ace is too clouded by jealousy and resentment to accept that. While Jack does not participate much in heroics, he has offered himself to be Ace and Hannah's ally under the name The Jack of Spades, and eventually becomes a reserve member of the League of Heroes known as the League of Allies.